Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.
— Озано, вы покорили огромное количество женщин. В чем секрет вашего успеха? — спросила одна из женщин. Все рассмеялись, в том числе и Озано. Этим он еще больше восхитил меня: мужчина, пять раз женивш...
Эти ребята прекрасно понимали, что женщина — враг, но враг, без которого мужчины не могли существовать. И их возмущало, что они должны платить этому врагу дань — деньгами, временем, привязанностью. Он...
Ушел же от нее Озано, по его словам, после того, как она начала говорить, что Скотт Фицджеральд украл все лучшие идеи у своей жены Зелды. Что она стала бы величайшей писательницей, если бы муж не обод...
They would never shame a statue of the Virgin Mary, but in the hot blood of vendetta they would shotgun the Pope himself for breaking omerta,
Have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them.
You let women dictate your actions and they are not competent in this world, though certainly they will be saints in heaven while we men burn in hell.
You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, Life is so beautiful, then nothing else is important. If I can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters. He would follow his father. He would care for hi...
Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man,
That night a bomb exploded in the Corleone Family mall in Long Beach, thrown from a car that pulled up to the chain, then roared away. That night also two button men of the Corleone Family were killed...
Strangers decide their lives.
Nekad neuztraucies par naudu. Domā par slavu.
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
His appearance was intimidating not from any single feature but from a lifelong habit of presenting a formidable front to the outside world.
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family.
Es rīkojos kā man ir vislabāk. Un vislabāk ir būt vienkāršam. Pavisam, pavisam vienkāršam. Un, kad vajag ko īpašu, tam jābūt pavisam, pavisam īpašam.
But his Godfather had never said such and such a thing could be done without having it done.